Talent Boost is a 10-week free intensive training for young software developers. The top
performers will be offered 6-month paid internship positions at VMware Bulgaria!
In Talent Boost, you will get highly valued skills needed for developing software in a big IT company. Writing the code is
only a small part of software development. Besides improving your coding skills and technology knowledge, the training
will also introduce you to the art of analysis, architecture, and design, as well as various process essentials for
developing quality software.
The course program starts with basics like choosing the right data structure and algorithms. Then we will delve into the
Object Oriented Programming and its implementations. The next step is to try it in parallel — multithreading can speed
up your program, but it can also slow it down or even block it completely. Finally, we will make everything work remotely
over the network.
In addition, during the course you will have to solve many programming problems. Our lecturers will be giving you directions
and feedback how to do it nicely. They will show you the common mistakes and will teach you how to avoid them.
In the software industry it is not enough to just write the code. You will have to consider many other things such as architecture,
design, code readability, testability, maintainability, scalability, reliability … and so on. Have you ever thought
about these before? The course will train you to consider these issues intuitively and write your code appropriately
so that it corresponds to the high standards in the industry.
This is not just another Java course, although we will be using Java language to illustrate the concepts of software development.
Don’t worry if you don’t know Java, this is just another tool that you will learn. We will show you a few others that
are widely adopted in the industry as wel
Quality
65% of all students, started careers immediately after being taught by some of our mentors in the last 7 years. In 1-3
years time, 30% of those became leaders - leading projects, teams or companies.
Remote mentorship
We do the mentoring sessions even remotely and it is proven, by companies that are our clients, that it works.
Achievements
A lot of awards have been taken by our students (or mentors). The biggest achievement is that most of our students are
becoming strong IT professionals.
TalentBoost program covers the following topics
TalentBoost training includes the following intensive courses:
Program Lifecycle Basics (version control systems, review board, bugzilla, IDEs)
Data Structures and Algorithms
OOP
Problem Solving/Development methodology (methodologies, agile planning, roles)
IO (Readers/Writers, Files)
Networking (OSI model, TCP/IP, HTTP(S), Open server socket)
The course is FREE for students who want to learn and are ready to dedicate much time for that. Following are the steps you have to complete if you want to participate in TalentBoost:
At high school I studied electronics with a concentration in hardware, but I decided to shift to software and that
the Technical University of Sofia is the best place for me.
What I like about VMware is that it is a company with a world-wide reputation, which would have many growth opportunities.
After a month and a half in the summer, I was very happy with employees’ attitude and professionalism.
I learned many new things in almost every field of programming. I got a better idea of what a company would expect
of me as a developer and for the first time in my life I started working on a big project which was the best of
all.
My internship (after Talent Boost) is going quite well, I am working on my project and I am learning new things
every day. I working with new technologies that are very interesting to me. I had to start using many different
programing languages that I hadn’t worked with before.
Do you have Questions?
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